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Ardrana is a gaming world, designed for use within Dungeons & Dragons, created by John Proulx and John Ritskowitz circa 1985. Despite the fact that the world was first created and the first games were played and their stories were written down all those years ago, Ardrana was completely unpublished and only known among its creators and their fellow gamers until the Internet age; a story featuring the setting we now know as Ardrana appeared in the gaming magazine Audyssey in 2003, the name "Ardrana" itself first appeared in an issue of that magazine from 2005 (though with very little context as to what "Ardrana" meant), and an Ardrana website with much more information was founded; the current Ardrana website has edit history going back to 2007, though Ardrana may have had a website before this. John Proulx and Shelly Proulx write, edit and maintain the stories and information that the site contains, as John Ritskowitz had left Ardrana, and gaming in general, years before that first Audyssey magazine story and the founding of the Ardrana website.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })According to the Ardrana website, there is currently only one active Dungeons & Dragons group, The Blind Gamers Group, that are known to set their games in the world of Ardrana; all of the most recent Ardrana stories come from this group of visually impaired gamers that connect using audio chat software. However, one quick look at the Adventures category on the website shows that, since the mid 80s, there have been several different gaming groups that used Ardrana, but Blind Gamers is the only active one currently. These collections of stories from the different gaming groups are seen by fans as generations, with the Sheehan D&D Club stories having been created around 1984, the U-Mass stories having been created around 1985, and so on. The most famous of these generations is, of course, the Blind Gamers Group series, as these stories are the ones that appeared, in a more expanded and less summarized form, in the Audyssey magazine, though the John and Shelly Solo series is also known for its attention to detail, and how on rare occasions, one of these will be in the process of being created while a Blind Gamers adventure is underway. This hasn't been true lately, but when it is, two stories are clearly seen featured on the home page when usually there is just one.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })The Ardrana website is a wiki, but not a publicly editable one; only Ardrana's authors can edit it. The stories, geography, history and character information pages appear to be written for the general public; characters articles do not feature D&D-style character stats, just biographical information the public can easily understand. The Ardrana website is known for having absolutely no pictures on it; on the websites of many other gaming worlds, maps are often found, but on the Ardrana site, all geography is described in text. Between the several dozen stories, hundreds of characters, historical events, geographical features, mythology and pretty much everything else you can expect from a complete guide to a complex world, there are over one thousand articles on the wiki.The ardrana.net website is the official website of John and Shelly Proulx, but only the wiki section of that website is related to the world of Ardrana; even the cookbook, which is part of the site but not the wiki, is a Proulx family cookbook, not Ardrana-related at all. This TV Tropes article is just about Ardrana the fantasy world, so just the wiki and the magazine articles, not the cookbook or list of CD's/DVD's, since those are Proulx-related but not Ardrana-related.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); }) | |
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Alternative Calendar: The Lanad Calendar! They made a rather interesting choice as to what to count the years based on; twelve months in a year, thirty days in a month, but 361 days in a year thanks to that one day every year, the Day of Change, that isn't part of any of the months and is said to actually be both the end of one year and the beginning of the next. And the month names are absurd; Duvhalmadbarak, Adhkazh, Svidarvan, Vorald, the list goes on! | |
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Loyal Animal Companion: Meriel Laelitha Rowan Staff's feline companion, Swiftfoot. Not an example of All Witches Have Cats because feline companions are not mentioned that often in Ardrana. | |
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Fictional Zodiac: The Zodiac of Ardrana. They have twelve Zodiacal signs, and a special one just for people who were born on the Day of Change! That odd little day that appears to be its own month! | |
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Early-Installment Weirdness | |
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Early Installment Weirdness: Some of the stories that seem to be overlooked by many fans, such as the Adventures of the Sheehan D&D Club series and the Adventures at U Mass series, which were played in the very early days of Ardrana (1984 and 1985); these series usually only have one or two stories, and those stories are only one or two paragraphs long. These days, fans, especially if they're reading the Adventures of the Blind Gamers Group series, expect much longer stories, even ones that are long enough to have a table of contents with sections and subsections! | |
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In "The Show Must Go On" from the Adventures of the Blind Gamers Group series, the wandering minstrel's name is Orpheus, and his road manager's name is Johnny Keynote. Orpheus and Keynote Gold are the names of text-to-speech software products. However, this could also be a Punny Name since Orpheus is also referenced within the Ardrana text as being a reference to the character of the same name in the Hercules TV series. So perhaps Johnny Keynote was created to make a high-tech pun on Orpheus's name. | |
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Suspiciously Similar Song: In the Adventures of the Blind Gamers Group story "Clear Across the Barrens", and in a brief callback in "Out and About", a song called "The Beer Song" is mentioned. This is lampshaded in what is probably one of the only extremely funny moments from Ardrana (besides the characters with pun names), complete with a Wikipedia link to the popular folk song "Beer, Beer, Beer". | |
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Continuity Nod | |
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Continuity Nod: This does not happen all the time, but often, mostly in the Adventures of the Blind Gamers Group series, sometimes a story will say something such as, "After the events of their previous mission", and the words "previous mission" will be a link to the story that took place immediately before it. | |
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Aerith and Bob | |
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Aerith and Bob: This happens quite a few times in Ardrana stories just because of the kinds of names the characters have, but one very noticeable one is in the "Conchita's Journey of Enlightenment" story from the John and Shelly Solo generation, the princess's name is Conchita, a fairly common name at least in Spanish, but her gnome cleric's name? Querth! In more recent episodes from the Adventures of the Blind Gamers Group generation, most noticeably in "Into the Borderlands", an elven wizard and her cat companion appear; their names are Meriel and Swiftfoot. Being a fantasy world, characters tend to have unusual names, and the characters with names that are more realistic still lean toward more obscure realistic names, so often a character with a completely fantastic name will be partnered with a character with a name that still seems slightly obscure but is still a name that real people have. | |
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Shout-Out: Some of the characters, which appear to be from a currently unpublished story but appear in character category lists, are direct references to Disney's Aladdin universe: Abu, Abis Mal, Abnor Mal; much of the "Rescuing the Crock of Cheese" story has this Aladdin feel, as the idea of "the Most Sacred Crock of Cheese" comes from the Aladdin TV series. In fact, a city that appears in that story and is mentioned quite a few other times is called Agrabah. Gilbert Sullivan of course is a reference to either Gilbert and Sullivan or maybe Gilbert O'Sullivan; more likely Gilbert and Sullivan, since Ballad of Nevyn is a comedic ballad. In "The Show Must Go On" from the Adventures of the Blind Gamers Group series, the wandering minstrel's name is Orpheus, and his road manager's name is Johnny Keynote. Orpheus and Keynote Gold are the names of text-to-speech software products. However, this could also be a Punny Name since Orpheus is also referenced within the Ardrana text as being a reference to the character of the same name in the Hercules TV series. So perhaps Johnny Keynote was created to make a high-tech pun on Orpheus's name. At the end of a description of a race of characters, such as the article about orcs, often an edition of the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons player guide or monster manual will be cited. After all, Ardrana was created for D&D. In fact, sometimes, other gaming worlds are referenced directly; for example, several references to a city called Ribcage can be found; this is a reference to a city with the same name in the Planescape campaign setting. Over a dozen references to Planescape can be found throughout Ardrana. In "Quentin's Item", a story from Adventures of the Minneapolis Live Group, there is a human paladin of the Life Spirit named Robert Scorpio, inspired by the character in General Hospital. | |
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Fictional Holiday | |
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Fictional Holiday: Day of Change! Oh boy, it's a winter solstice, the end of the year, and it is just as festive as Christmas! If you could live on that planet, you would feel like you were in a time paradox; is it the last day of the year or the first day of the next one? Both, apparently! | |
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